A bus hit a cargo truck north of Ghana's second city Kumasi overnight, killing 71 people in the West African country's deadliest road crash for years, authorities said on Thursday.
German prosecutors Tuesday said human error was to blame for a train crash last week that killed 11 people and charged a 39-year-old signalling worker with negligence leading to the accident.
Six people were slightly injured on Sunday in Spain when parts of a cinema roof collapsed, emergency services said.
Two commuter trains crashed head-on in southern Germany, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 100, in one of the country's deadliest rail accidents in years.
Indian authorities say a falling object that killed a bus driver and injured three others was a meteorite. If proven, it would be the first such death in recorded history.
A fire started by a falling oil lamp engulfed several huts in a Pakistan fishing village and killed 10 people including women and children early Sunday, police said.
Two Qatari nationals and their Indian housemaid were killed when their vehicle overturned on the Abu Samra road on January 27.
Rescuers searched Wednesday for 10 soldiers feared buried in an avalanche in India's remote Himalayas near the de facto border with Pakistan, an army spokesman said.
At least 12 people, including three children, perished in a fire in a Moscow factory that caused the roof to collapse, Russian authorities said on Sunday.
Fire broke out in an old and small compound in Doha's Najma area, creating panic among the residents of the neighbourhood. No one was hurt. The incident was reported around 10.50am.
A South African expatriate man has been fined QR10,000 and ordered to pay a blood money of QR200,000 for running over a Yemeni boy while driving ...
Forty-four people drowned when three refugee boats sank Friday off Greece, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel obtained a pledge from Turkey to "do everything" to stop record numbers of migrants heading to Europe.
